Johnson was found dead July 7 at a rooming house he owned in the 5400 block of N. Hopkins St. Williams said video from a neighboring building showed Goodenough throwing a bundle into a trash bin that day, a bundle later found to contain a bloody knife and plastic gloves. At first, Goodenough told detectives he had no idea what had happened to his friend but the next day admitted to the killing.

Goodenough told detectives that after Johnson was stabbed accidentally, he told Goodenough, "I love you," and began coming at him, swinging his fists, and Goodenough stabbed at Johnson again repeatedly until he went down.

"He just happened to have gloves on when he was accidentally stabbing Mr. Johnson," Williams said.

Goodenough's attorney, Kelli Thompson, told jurors that the two men were good friends, and that Goodenough had spent the night at Johnson's rooming house with some other friends, who were all going to go to Summerfest that night.

But shortly after noon, only the two men were at the house. Goodenough tried to convince Johnson not to evict a woman whom he suspected of using it for prostitution. During the discussion, Thompson said, Goodenough brought up a "sexually compromising" incident involving the victim, and Johnson "lost it."

The criminal complaint indicates Goodenough told Johnson he'd seen him in bed with another man at a sex party they had attended in Chicago on New Year's Eve.

Thompson said Johnson was cutting potatoes for the two men's breakfast and suddenly came at Goodenough with the knife, they fell, and Johnson suffered a stab wound to the neck. Goodenough got hold of the knife but Johnson kept coming at him, Thompson said.

She said many of the 55 stab wounds were actually minor cuts inflicted as Goodenough tried to defend himself. She said Goodenough was in shock that he ultimately killed his friend during the struggle, and ditched the knife and took $150 from Johnson's room in a panic. She said her client will testify about what happened.